“I have to bite my tongue on certain things,” the “Good as Hell” singer told TIME. “When people challenge my talent, they challenge whether I deserve to be here. They challenge my blackness. I’m like, ‘Oh! I can easily just let your *ss know right now in 132 characters why you’re f*cking wrong.’”

Just earlier this week, Lizzo set Twitter ablaze when pics of her courtside outfit, which exposed her thong, filled everyone’s timelines. She addressed the negativity on her social media shortly after.

“I’m not going to quiet myself, I’m not going to shrink myself because somebody thinks that I’m not sexy to them. B*tch you really think because someone on Twitter thinks I’m not cute I’m going to stop existing?” she said during an IG live. “I think it’s healthy to have a relationship with your naked body, even if no one ever sees it,” Lizzo told TIME. “But I’ve always felt the need to share it.”

“I’ve always stood up for the underdog and the underrepresented because I can’t escape from that myself,” Lizzo told Teen Vogue in 2018. “I can’t wake up one day and not be black. I can’t wake up one day and not be a woman. I can’t wake up one day and not be fat. I always had those three things against me in this world, and because I fight for myself, I have to fight for everyone else.”